As Liang Zhirou recalled the lively girl she had met that afternoon, the more she thought about it, the more uncertain she felt.
She simply cannot handle someone with this kind of personality.
"Do you want me to tutor your younger sister? What grade is she in?" she asked softly.
"Yes, my younger sister, a sophomore in high school."
"My own sister..."
Hearing this, the girl felt inexplicably happy and her mood improved considerably.
"Why don't you teach her yourself...you're so amazing," she continued.
Hearing this made Chen Lu feel a sense of relief.
No boy can resist a girl praising his abilities.
Without exception!
"Keep praising me, if you can praise me, then praise me even more." Chen Lu's lips were practically curled into a smile. "Am I really that amazing?"
“You’re already very capable…you know so many things.” Liang Zhirou muttered to herself, “And you do everything with such ease that people really want to ask you for help.”
After the girl finished speaking, she secretly pursed her lips. She was too shy to say that he was also very handsome. That night, when they made eye contact, it wasn't just Chen Lu who was stunned...
"I see." Chen Lu said noncommittally, looking at her with a mischievous smile. "I didn't expect you to have such a good impression of me."
Liang Zhirou nodded gently, but in her heart, her impression of Chen Lu was a hundred times better than that.
Just then, Lin Miaomiao called again.
"Where are you guys having fun? Tell me! I'm going crazy from being cooped up at home!"
This guy's obviously here to gossip; he doesn't even bother to put on an act.
"Hello?
What did you say? Hello? My signal is bad here, I'll hang up now!
Chen Lu hung up and put the phone aside.
It rang again shortly afterward.
Chen Lu handed it to Liang Zhirou without even looking at it, saying, "Lin Miaomiao must have made this. Here, I'm going to the restroom."
Watching Chen Lu's departing figure, the girl subconsciously pressed the answer button, "Hello?"
"Chen Lu, your sister said you abandoned her and ran away..." Wang Xiaoxia's voice came from the other end of the line, but she stopped abruptly when she heard the voice on the other end. "Huh? Who is this?"
Liang Zhirou quickly covered her mouth, glanced at the caller ID, and was completely stunned when she realized it was Chen Lu's mother. She felt like her heart was about to jump out of her chest.
I felt even more nervous listening to Chen Lu's mother than listening to Chen Lu speak.
She was terrified and wanted to hang up, but then she thought that doing so would leave a bad impression on Wang Xiaoxia, so she could only suppress her anxiety and put the phone to her ear.
"Who are you?" Wang Xiaoxia asked with great confusion. She could hear the other person's slightly rapid breathing due to nervousness, so her tone was relatively gentle.
Liang Zhirou opened and closed her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word for a long time.
"Can you hear me?" the person on the other end of the phone asked again.
"Ah..." Liang Zhirou finally managed to squeeze out a sound, cautiously replying, "I can hear you..."
Wang Xiaoxia then heard the girl's voice clearly; it was soft and sweet.
She was quite experienced in this area, and she could roughly guess Liang Zhirou's personality just by listening to her voice and tone.
She must be an honest girl.
Chen Lu is up to no good.
"Who are you?" Wang Xiaoxia asked cautiously, afraid of frightening the child. "Isn't Chen Lu here?"
"Hello, Auntie... My name is Liang Zhirou..." Liang Zhirou took another deep breath, those few seconds felt incredibly long, "I'm Chen Lu's friend."
"He went to the bathroom...and hasn't come back yet."
She gripped the hem of her clothes tightly, her voice cracking with nervousness.
After finally managing to finish speaking, stumbling and stammering, Liang Zhirou felt her heart still pounding and she almost couldn't catch her breath.
Already shy, she became even more nervous when she realized that this was Chen Lu's mother, fearing that she might have done something wrong and displeased her.
Wang Xiaoxia smiled, her tone completely different from when she had initially confronted Chen Lu, and said, "You're Xiao Lu's friend? What a nice name."
Liang Zhirou could never have imagined that Wang Xiaoxia was also nervous, as this was the first time she had ever chatted with a girl Chen Lu knew.
Mo Yuqing doesn't count; I've watched that girl grow up since she was little, so I know her too well.
"Thank you, Auntie..." Liang Zhirou slumped over the table, her voice barely audible.
"Auntie won't bother you anymore. I just wanted to chat with Xiaolu, there's nothing else to it."
"OK..."
Liang Zhirou waited quietly for the other party to hang up first. When she heard the sound of the call ending, she took a deep breath and felt as if she had finally come back to life.
When Chen Lu returned, he saw Liang Zhirou with red eyes, looking up at him with a pitiful expression.
He was startled and quickly sat down next to her, asking, "What's wrong?"
The girl pointed to her phone, "That call just now... was from your mom..."
"Look at you, I thought it was something serious..." Chen Lu suddenly paused, "What? My mom?!"
Liang Zhirou nodded, still trying to recall if she had said anything wrong.
"What did you say?" Chen Lu finally couldn't stay calm. Although he was going to introduce Liang Zhirou to his parents anyway, now...
The nature of it is somewhat different.
Proactively introducing oneself and being discovered during a routine check-up are completely different things.
After listening to Liang Zhirou recount the story sentence by sentence, Chen Lu felt a little relieved.
"Is your part-time job handing out flyers paid daily?" he asked in turn.
"Mmm." The girl's voice was still trembling, clearly she hadn't recovered yet.
This was still too stimulating for her.
"Then you should rest for two days, which will be a good time to prepare your lessons."
"good."
Chen Lu rested his chin on his hand, looking at the girl in front of him whose face was as red as a cherry tomato, and continued to instruct her: "I always feel that you will be disobedient. Liang Zhirou, you must distinguish between what is important and what is urgent. If you teach well, you can earn a day's wages in an hour."
His expression was very serious. "Then we won't need to hand out flyers anymore. It's just too tiring."
"Once you're more skilled at tutoring, I can connect you with other jobs. You don't need to do that part-time job at the hot pot restaurant anymore, so no one will bully you when I'm not around."
Even the simple-minded Liang Zhirou could hear the seriousness and heartache in Chen Lu's tone, especially the last sentence, which pierced her heart.
The water mist kept spreading in front of me until my vision became completely blurred.
For the first time, she realized how wonderful it was to have someone care about her.
So happy that tears rolled down my cheeks, slowly forming a line.
In the air, they transform into fragile yet precious gems, and upon falling to the ground, they turn into splashes of water.
Throughout her life, Liang Zhirou has encountered countless people who have bullied her.
But the person who worried about her being bullied and wanted to protect her has only appeared now...
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